MNA taken off plane in NY for medical help

ISLAMABAD: A government spokesperson clarified on Sunday that Alam Dad Laleka, a PML-N MNA, was not off-loaded at the New York Airport but had to be taken off from the plane because of health emergency. He denied the news reports in certain sections of the media that Alam Dad Laleka was off-loaded from a private airline’s plane when he was about to take off from JFK Airport in New York on a flight for Pakistan, said a press release. The spokesperson said that the MNA was experiencing palpitation and was removed from the plane for medical help. He is at present admitted in the Jamaica Hospital, New York.